RICKY DAY

Ricky Day is a Harlem,New York based photographer, filmmaker, and media personality working primarily with themes related to identity, pop-culture and the African American experience. “For Love and Blackness” (November 2023) was Ricky’s first solo exhibition in New York City. In early 2023 Ricky was selected as the Juror’s Award-winning photographer for the exhibitions “Portrait– Self and Others” curated by Aline Smithson and “Parenthood” curated by Rebecca Senf at Photo Place Gallery in Vermont. Ricky is currently enhancing his skills and experience studying in the rigorous One-Year Certificate program in Creative Practices at the internationally renown International Center of Photography in New York City.

His work has been shown in numerous solo and group shows in America and abroad including: Untangled: Combing Through the Roots of Black Hair” on the occasion of Art Basel Miami 2023 at the Good TimeHotel; “Fire and Soul: 100 Years of Harlem” at Kente Royale Gallery; New York;”Black Art Matters“ at Maag Hall in Zurich; “Masterpiece” at Band of Vices in Los Angeles.  Ricky has also exhibited in group shows at Leslie Lohman Museum and Leslie Lohman Project Space, UmbrellaArts, and Rush Arts and additional solo exhibitions include; “Brother Outsider Won’t YouCome Inside” and “Introducing Ricky Day. In 2020, Ricky served as the first ever artist-in-residence for Art Crawl Harlem on Governor’s Island in New York City.

Other recent work includes; the 2021 and 2022 Pride campaigns for Emil Wilbekin’s Native Son which he conceived and shot, portraits including the front and back covers for Ty Hunter’s memoir “Makeover from Within,” and editorial cover stories for Ambassador Magazine and Swerv Magazine respectively.

Current and past clients include: The Met Museum, Google, YouTube, Interscope Records, Columbia University, TV-One, Proctor and Gamble, Nivea, Ford Models, PMK-BNC, Stylist and designer, Ty Hunter; author and CNN commentator, Keith Boykin; journalist and Native Son founder, Emil Wilbekin, media personality and author, Bevy Smith, Ford Models, Click Models, MBK Entertainment, Sugarcane Magazine, and Interscope Records to name a few.

Ricky is also a graduate of NY Theological Seminary where he earned a certificate in Christian Ministry and Leadership in 2021 the host of the engaging and inspiring weekly podcast, Nothing to Lose but Yourself which is available on all major podcast platforms including Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Ricky brings creativity, integrity, and an infectiously positive and calming spirt to his work and interactions with his subjects. To shoot with him is an experience in and of itself.